Alopecia Areata Support Group

Alopecia areata ("baldness in spots") is a form of hair loss from areas of the body, usually from the scalp. Because it causes bald spots on the head especially in the first stages, it is also called spot baldness. Hair loss can extend to eyebrows, eyelashes and facial and nasal hair and create more bald spots elsewhere in the body.

New to hair loss

Hi,
I have been losing my hair for 3 weeks now, I used to have full thick beautiful hair and now have lost about 2/3 of it. Blood tests show nothing wrong with me. I have 2 bald spots on each side. I am a hairdresser by trade ( I don't work as a hairdresser though.)
So my hair is very important to me, losing it is doing a NUMBER on me emotionally.
I have no idea what is causing it or if it will ever grow back.
Has anyone just started losing their hair for no apparent reason?

I went to my primary Doctor I only was deficienct in vitamin D .
I decided to go to a dermatologist and there they took a biopsy of my scalp .
I have CCCS alopecia - you must go to a dermatologist for a proper diagnoses to know what you are dealing with - than take it from there .
GOD BLESS

I started losing my hair almost 2 months ago. It has been very stressful, embarrassing, and isolating, but I also feel guilty about taking it so seriously when I consider that people have way worse conditions and situations than this. Does anyone else feel like this?

I lost all my hair over a period of about 6 months. I was very self-conscious of it at first, especially when it was falling out. It was embarrassing when people would ask me "why did you shave your eyebrows" etc, like I'm some kind of idiot who would shave one eyebrow for fun or something. I tried to conceal it for a long time until it got to the point where I couldn't cover it up anymore. That actually ended up being a blessing. Rather than growing weird hair configurations to try to cover it up I just shaved my head.

In retrospect, I do feel kind of silly/guilty for stressing so much about it when it wasn't a big deal to anyone besides me. If people asked me about it, it was just because they were curious, and I didn't need to feel ashamed or embarrassed.

Stop stressing about it. There is nothing you can do about it, and stressing certainly won't help. Do what you can with however much hair you have, if it gets to the point where you don't like how the hair you have looks, shave it all off and be done with it.

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